Less beautifully, the leading story in this morning’s
Independent is a shocking report of big Western pharmaceutical companies ( AstraZeneca,
Pfizer, and Merck) carrying out their drug tests on people in
countries such as China, Thailand, Indonesia and, particularly, India, where
safety regulations and ethical restrictions are much less onerous than in the
West, and the profit margins therefore much greater. In India alone, since
2005, over 150,000 people have been involved in some 1,600 clinical trials,
often without those people understanding what they have signed up for. Exploitative,
neo-colonial, capitalism doesn’t get
much more blatant & shameless than this.
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